Barts and the London NHS Trust projects a £3m shortfall in income this year due to serious data, reporting and technical problems with its new Cerner Millennium Care Records System.

Informing Healthcare has announced that the Individual Health Record has been used for the first time in acute care.

Almost one in ten hospital episodes is incorrectly coded, according to an analysis carried out by the Audit Commission.

Fujitsu may be preparing to seek up to £700m from the DH in compensation from Department of Health for the termination of its £1.1 billion NHS IT contract in May.

UK health IT vendor Stalis has acquired clinical software developer Silverlink for an undisclosed sum.

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust has created a secure remote working environment for clinicians to support its business strategy of delivering care closer to patients' homes.

An alliance of seven UK and Irish healthcare software vendors and implementers has been formed to offer NHS trusts a one-stop shop for best of breed clinical solutions.

Wirral Primary Care Trust has delayed plans to introduce a telephone support service provided by a US contractor, after a local outcry at plans to transfer extracts from patient records to a private company.

Police are to be given access to the Government's new children's database, in order to search for evidence of criminal activity.

The trade association Intellect has expressed disappointment that the Department of Health's latest policy statement on diabetes fails to give a role to telehealth and telecare.

In its first annual report since acquiring UK health software vendor iSoft, for £166m last August, IBA Health on Monday reported that revenues have almost quadrupled to £168m, up from £35m in 2007.

In its first annual report since acquiring UK health software vendor iSoft, for £166m last August, IBA Health on Monday reported that revenues have almost quadrupled to £168m, up from £35m in 2007.

A new survey says that a third of people working in healthcare have experienced having their phone cut off due to problems such as equipment failures or cables being accidently cut.

The Department of Health is this week expected to set out its vision for information prescriptions that are linked to electronic patient records and a national accredited information system based within NHS Choices.

St Mary's Hospital, part of London's Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, has delayed plans to go-live this coming weekend with the Cerner Millennium electronic records system supplied by BT as part of the National Programme for IT in the NHS.

E-Health Insider has learned that just a month after the publication of the Health Informatics Review, a number of NHS foundation trusts have begun to move to non-National Programme for IT in the NHS solutions.

The Conservative Party has commissioned an independent review of NHS IT policy.

The Conservative Party has commissioned an independent review of NHS IT policy to be carried out under the auspices of the British Computer Society.

The Conservative Party has commissioned an independent review of NHS IT policy to be carried out under the auspices of the British Computer Society.